Our Instructors

Miss Victoria

Studio Owner & Director of Happy Feet Dance Studio

| Senior Company Director |

Victoria Visco graduated from Rutgers University-Camden with a BS in Business Management. Victoria has been dancing since the age of 3. She has studied Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Modern, Hip-Hop and Jazz. She has performed in a variety of shows and theatre productions, has performed at a 76ers game and was an active member of the Paul VI High School dance team. She ran and organized a Middle School dance team for many years and her choreography has been featured in various talent shows, performances and competitions throughout the area.

She is thrilled to be teaching and sharing her passion for dance as she grew up training at Happy Feet herself. "I want to share the joy that dancing at Happy Feet brings. This is not just a dance studio, this is a family and an nurturing environment that will stay with you for a lifetime. I have a passion for sharing and teaching and a passion for dance. I want nothing more than to be a role model for my students. I want to teach them to feel comfortable in their own skin through the art of dance and movement. Dance allows us to feel and connect and I want everybody to experience that."

Miss Dominique

| Junior Company Director |

Dominique Visco currently attends Rutgers University-Camden where she is working towards a degree in Business.

Dominique has been dancing since the age of 2 and has trained in many different styles of dance including Jazz, Hip-Hop, Tap, Ballet and Modern. She was a member of the Sparks competition team, here at Happy Feet, for 6 years, where her team won 1st Place Overall in 2020. Dominique was also a member of her high school dance team for 4 years, where she took part in many performance opportunities. Dominique is excited to continue to be a part of the Happy Feet family. She is excited to share her love for dance with the younger dancers at Happy Feet!

Miss Stevie

| Minis in Motion | Jazz | Hip-Hop |

Stevie Rose Gerhart is a performer and dance educator from Gloucester County, New Jersey. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance with a Concentration in Performance to continue her dance career at Stockton University. Gerhart started her dance training at a very young age and attended a performing arts high school, Gloucester County Institute of Technology in Sewell, NJ. In June of 2020, Gerhart was recognized for her dedication in the program and received the Katharine Campbell Dance Spirit Scholarship. While still enrolled in high school, Gerhart also attended Rowan College of South Jersey to get a head start on her college education. Stevie Rose Gerhart has exposure to the theatrical world, where she had the opportunity of opening the Rockette Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall with vocal choir led by Philomena Ross, and has taken masterclasses with artists such as Andrew Ruggeri who was on the Chicago world tour, and James T. Lane, who was in the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line on Broadway. Gerhart choreographed for a holiday musical, The Doll, in 2019, where she was able to challenge herself as a part of the production team rather than being a performer. She is also a proud member of the nationally ranked Stockton University Dance Team. Stevie Rose Gerhart teaches at numerous dance and performing art studios in the South Jersey area, where she instructs and choreographs jazz, ballet, tap, contemporary and lyrical dance styles. She has regularly performed and choreographed through the Stockton Dance Program and has had her work adjudicated and selected to be on stage by Stockton Dance faculty Beau Hancock, Rain Ross and Caitlin Quinn Pittenger throughout her college education.

Miss Grace

Grace McGlinchey is a current student at Stockton University where she is pursuing a degree Dance with a concentration in Studio Operations. In addition to being involved in Stockton’s Dance Program. In 2020, her team ranked as the #1 Open Jazz Team in the Northeastern United States. In 2021, her team ranked #2 in the nation for Open Jazz and Open Hip-Hop.

Beginning her dance training at age 2, she quickly found her passion and later committed to a competitive position in her studio’s Advanced Training Program. As she continues to grow in her dance education, Grace is beyond excited to share her experience and love for dance with her students at Happy Feet Dance Studio!

Miss Maria

|Mini Company Director|

Maria Guldin is a current student at Rowan University where she is pursuing a degree Dance. She began dancing at the age of 3. For 17 years, she trained at Patricia Reid Studio of Dance, where her passion grew. Throughout her high school career, Maria was apart of the dance program at Williamstown High School. After high school, Maria taught at Patricia Reid Studio of Dance training dancers in the styles of Hip-Hop & Acro. Later, she taught at Mainstage School of Dance.

Maria is thrilled to be apart of the Happy Feet Family and is excited to share the gift of dance with all of her students! She hopes to inspire them to achieve all things, inside and outside of the studio!

Miss Jacqueline

| Acrobatic Arts Certified |

Jacqueline Loiseau started dance at the age of 3 in beginner ballet and tap classes. Throughout her dance career, she was a member of the competition team at Ovations Dance Studio for several years and studied various styles of dance including Ballet, Pointe, Acro, Jazz, Lyrical, and Modern. During college, she auditioned and joined the University of Dayton Dance Team and became President her senior year, choreographing and organizing all dance team performances. Jacqueline was also involved in Life Itself Dance, a student run dance club on campus, where she performed Jazz, Ballet, Hip-Hop, and Lyrical dances while teaching and choreographing performances for Advanced Lyrical. She also sat on their executive board as Vice President and choreographed many solos and duets.

Upon graduation, Jacqueline joined the staff at Jeanie Moreland Dance Theatre as their Junior Competition Director responsible for Lyrical, Jazz, Technique, Pointe and solos for their junior competition dancers.

Jacqueline is now excited to be expanding her love for teaching at Happy Feet!

Miss Anna

Since she was two years old, Anna Donahue has studied dance in a variety of genres, including Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Contemporary, and Modern. She participated in numerous shows and performances as a company member--this inspired her to become a teacher, which she has now been doing for 6 years. Miss Anna has performed at Philadelphia Soul, Philadelphia Wings and Philadelphia 76ers games. To keep up with her training and dance education, she takes master classes and dance classes on the regular. She is now studying at Rowan College in Gloucester County.

Miss Anna enjoys expressing the love of dance to her students!

Miss Taja

| Minis in Motion | Dance Basics |

Taja Fooks-Thornton is a native of South Jersey. Taja began her formal dance training under the mentorship of Dara Meredith and Laceda Nelson. Between 2011 and 2014 Taja danced with Eleone Connections, the second company of Eleone Dance Theatre. In 2018, Taja received her BFA in Dance from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. After leaving Rutgers, Taja traveled the world with Disney Cruise Line under contract as a Main Stage Performer. Most recently, she has begun her journey as a Pilates instructor and Teaching Artist in the South Jersey area.

Miss Gabriella

Gabriella Sebastiano has been teaching dance since 2013 and taught at Happy Feet Dance Studio since 2018. She graduated from Rowan University with a BA in Elementary Education and a BA in English. She is currently an 8th grade math teacher at a local New Jersey middle school. There, Gabriella is choreographer for the Drama Department where she runs the choreography for their Musicals. She has always had a passion for dancing, and has even more of a passion for teaching her students.

Gabriella is extremely thankful to be living her dream as a dance teacher, and she is so excited to be back at Happy Feet!